On 24 November 1847, the Cargill family sailed for New Zealand on the ship John Wickliffe, arriving at what is now Port Chalmers, Otago on 23 March 1848.

[1] John Cargill took up a sheep run at the Coast where the Tokomairaro River flows into the Pacific Ocean at Toko Mouth.

[2] He was elected to the 1st New Zealand Parliament as a representative of the Dunedin Country electorate, which covered rural Otago, Southland, and Fiordland.

[3] The house had not been convened in 1857[4] and Cargill Jr. placed an advertisement in the Otago Witness on 12 September 1857, announcing his intention of handing in his resignation.

[10] After running into financial difficulties, Cargill left New Zealand for England in 1884, and went on to British Columbia about three years later.

She was the third daughter of Isaac Earl Featherston, his fellow member of parliament and Superintendent of Wellington Province.